Academia

“I am passionate about educating and mentoring dental students to provide thorough, quality, ethical, and compassionate evidence-based dentistry.”

 
 

Teaching Experience

University of Maryland, School of Dentistry (2024)

  • Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Course Director

Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), College of Dentistry (2023)

  • Curriculum Consultant: Wrote competency exam rubrics for all of the preclinical and clinical courses

California Northstate University, School of Dental Medicine (2019 – 2022)

  • Assistant Professor: Small group facilitator/Sim Lab faculty

  • Curriculum Consultant

University of California San Francisco (UCSF), School of Dentistry (2019 - 2022)

  • Assistant Clinical Professor

  • Obtained a Clinical Teaching Certificate (2021)

Sponsoring Dentist for a Registered Dental Assistant in Extended Functions (RDAEF) student

Lectures Given

  • Behavioral Dentistry (year-long course addressing patient communication and management).

  • Halloween Haunted Cases (i.e., Cautionary Tales) for SPEA (Student Professionalism and Ethics Association in Dentistry)

  • How to Succeed & Avoid Common Mistakes in the Predoctoral Clinic

  • 10 Common Mistakes in the Predoctoral Clinic (for D3 Clinic Orientation)

  • 30 Clinical Pearls to Help You Succeed as a Dentist for ASDA (American Student Dental Association) District 3 Conference

  • Dental Assisting 101

  • Intersecting Identities in Dentistry: Treating the Patient, Not the Tooth

  • Soft Tissue Laser basics

  • Community Health Centers as a Career: Benefits, Challenges, & Advise

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